The Osceola times., 1887-10-08

FIRE al Payne, o., on the 2sth, destroye'
a new row of business blocks The loss |
divided among twenty or more persons
and Is estimated at $4,000; partially in
sured.
SERGEANT TrEPLE, Company =, Fiji
United States infantry, stationed at For
Smelling, who had been at 50. Paul, MINI.
for several weeks drinking heavily, Gu
his throat with razor on the 18th, an'
died shortly afterward.
AN ammonia tank in John Freiz's brew
cry. No. 2i2 Scholes street, New York, ex
ploded on the 2Sth, and bolt pierced th
body OF VIM. Rentz the engineer, killing
him instantly. He was forty-hve year
old, and lived with his family at Ridge
wood, Lond Island.
II. Z. PHELPS, Of Hartford. Mich, was
killed by a railway accident at Mattoon,
ILL.,. ON the 2eth, while returning home
from the G.. A. II. encampment at st
Louis.
AFTER being out three hours, a Milwau.
kee jury, ON the 29th. convicted j. c.
Hoelsel OF poisoning his uncle, Fred Letz
The evidence was circumstantial. Tn,
young man tried 10 divert suspicion TO his
aunt, as Lett aud his wife frequently
quarreled. Hoelzel hed, but was capt
ured in Iowa.
4. NJ. SEVERANCE, chashier Of the defunct
Farmers Bank Of Fayetteville, N. ", has
been arrested on complaint of Receiver
Andrews, charging him with embezzling
$4,000 OF the banks funds.
WILLIAM I. GRIIsHAw, q prominent
harness manufacturer, was at his place OF
business in Amsterdam. ", Y, on the
Goth, at the usual hour, but, on complain
ing OF being i'll, he returned home. Mrs.
Grimshaw, his mother, who lived with
him, was called from tho house, aud on
her return found her son in bedroom
with his throat cut from ear to ear. His
hand clasped blood stained razor.
THIEVES got into the National Bank at
Washington, Ind, in daylight on the 3Jth,
and got away with several hundred dol
lars.
THE steamer 7. u. Sims old ID. Il. Pow
elD, was burned at Island 20, just above
Memphis, Tenn., on the 3)ta, one life be-
ing lost
A LORE highwayman held up the pas.
sengers ON Two stage coaches on the route
from San Angelo to Ballinger, Tex. on the
29th, obtaining from them about S2,50.
MUNCHRATH. convicted Of completely in
the murder OF DIR. HGddoch, at Sioux City,
Ia, was sentenced ca the Goth to four
years in the pontentiaTy. The case has
been appealed.
THE Farmers Bank at Newcastle, Del,
was entered at an early hour on the morn.
ing of the 3)ih by masked robbers. Their
movements awoke the cashier, who seized
his pistol and fred, wounding one Of the
intruders. His companions picked up the
fallen man and quickly carried him out
the front door. making their escape.
Mrs. F. KiNscH eioped from pittsburg,
Kas., several days ago with Owen Dob
bins, a stoneinason She Is thirty-eight
years Of aze and the mother of six chill
dren. Dobbns has been boarding at her
house. Mr.. Kinsch located the runaway
couple in Kansas City on the 30th, aud
caused their arrest They were put in the
county Jail
THE Tombstone coach, belonging TO the
"Mexioan Joer (Joe Sheely of Texas)
combination, while parading at a gallop.
ing pace through the streets OF Liverpool,
England, on the S0th, capsized and the
members of the band were scattered upon
the stone payments in all directions.
-Four were SO badly injured that they had
to be taken TO the hospital. The band in-
struments were all smashed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, treasurer of the Ham
ilton tOnt.) Powder COMPANY, was arrest
ed at Ogdensburg, n. V, on the lst,
whittier he fed after having defaulted to
the extent Of S2j, 600, which he lost through
injudicious speculation.
THREE men and two hoys were sufro.
Gated, and thirteen others overcome with
gas In the Bost Colliery at Ashland, Pa,
on the lst.
By the burning of the "English Eitch.
en-" at Detroit, Mich, on the morning of
the lst, one person was burned 10 Gin.
der. one sufiocated to death, aud another
so badly burned that his recovery is i'm
possible
REV. HENRY CLEMENS, Free Methodist
preacher, committed suicide near NJ Hers
burg, o., on the lst by placing the muzzle
of q shotgun in his mouth and shooting
the top of his head Off.
The Lunar OH Works IN Brooklyn were
DANA ced by fire on the III TO the extent of
50 1000. The Excelsior stores adjoining
also suffered loss of about $4,000. All
insured.
NEWS has been received of serious ac-
cident on the A. o. q. road, near Glad
stone, Mich. A work-train, in backing
down, struck COW and derailed the
train. The conductor and brakeman
were killed and several others were in
jured.
A FTRE at Mitchell, Oak, on the lst,
destroyed the Dutton & Mitchell barns
and nineteen horses, including Ben Lee,
the running horse The less Is $4,000.
lneendiarism is suspect ed.
THREE unknown hunters deliberately
shot mau and boy near Elizabethport,
n. j.. on the III The victims are Patrick
Duouo and Dennis Norton, the latter a lad
Of thirteen years. They were picking ber-
ries, when the men with their guns came
along, aud taking deliberate aim, fired,
nfiicting probably fatal wounda